a Regal struggle in Chengdu by husunzi | 28 October 2009

Today about 50 construction workers assembled outside the gate of the “Manhatten” office building in Chengdu, on behalf of over a thousand workers, demanding 30 million yuan in back pay from Chengdu Xinda Real Estate Development Co. (成都鑫达房地产开发有限公司) for 12 months work building the five-star Regal Master Hotel (成都富豪首座酒店), from July 2006 to July 2007...

Several news agencies were contacted, but apparently none came to investigate. (One commented that such incidents are too common to be newsworthy, and besides, no newspaper’s editors would be willing to publish it.) The workers went “home” to the construction site where they currently live in makeshift shacks, but they say they’ll be back every day until they get paid.

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